This chapter, notice, started by considering one kind of priesthood, roughly speaking—the theologians and clergy who have made it their mission to help enforce Darwinian orthodoxy. Then the chapter moved on to talking about another kind of priesthood—those in the scientific community who use peer review to guard the current scientific orthodoxies. Both priesthoods are bad for scientific progress. Science doesn’t progress by simply trusting the “authorities.” It doesn’t progress by using peer review to enforce orthodoxy. It progresses by following the evidence wherever it leads, no holds
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